[jira] Updated: (PIG-760) Serialize schemas for PigStorage() and other storage types.

["Alan Gates (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Alan Gates updated PIG-760:
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    Attachment: TEST-org.apache.pig.piggybank.test.TestPigStorageSchema.txt

When I run the unit tests in piggybank, the new TestPigStorageSchema fails.  I've attached the output of the test.

> Serialize schemas for PigStorage() and other storage types.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-760
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-760
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: David Ciemiewicz
>            Assignee: Dmitriy V. Ryaboy
>             Fix For: 0.7.0
>
>         Attachments: pigstorageschema-2.patch, pigstorageschema.patch, pigstorageschema_3.patch, pigstorageschema_4.patch, TEST-org.apache.pig.piggybank.test.TestPigStorageSchema.txt
>
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> I'm finding PigStorage() really convenient for storage and data interchange because it compresses well and imports into Excel and other analysis environments well.
> However, it is a pain when it comes to maintenance because the columns are in fixed locations and I'd like to add columns in some cases.
> It would be great if load PigStorage() could read a default schema from a .schema file stored with the data and if store PigStorage() could store a .schema file with the data.
> I have tested this out and both Hadoop HDFS and Pig in -exectype local mode will ignore a file called .schema in a directory of part files.
> So, for example, if I have a chain of Pig scripts I execute such as:
> A = load 'data-1' using PigStorage() as ( a: int , b: int );
> store A into 'data-2' using PigStorage();
> B = load 'data-2' using PigStorage();
> describe B;
> describe B should output something like { a: int, b: int }

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